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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AguaFriaRanger" data-source="post: 3631419" data-attributes="member: 48527"><p>As I said, the ammo market is insane right now. But thinking that 7.62x39 is doomed to be a boutique, brass only oddity is just not based in any version of reality I can conceive of. The Russian ban is going to force ALL ammo up a fair margin because of the loss of steel case (yes, even 5.56/9mm/.308). Proportionally the 7.62x39 market may be getting hit harder by the ban than other calibers but it has not lost everything if you exclude Russia. The same is not true for 7.62x54 and 5.45x39 because they are almost exclusively produced in Russia and for 5.45 in particular I don't think ANYONE makes 5.45 without at least using Russian cases (Hornady uses Russian cases for their 5.45). So those two calibers are in trouble. The whole ammo market is going up. But the market going up also means that there is a greater chance someone will step up to fill that market gap. There is too much money to be made in that cheap ammo customer segment for the whole world to just go "wow that sucks" and do nothing about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>